Chapter 16: Problem 1
In this chapter, we focused on cancer as a genetic disease. In particular, we discussed the relationship between cancer, the cell cycle, and mutations in proto-oncogenes and tumor-suppressor genes. Based on your knowledge of these topics, answer several fundamental questions: (a) How do we know that malignant tumors arise from a single cell that contains mutations? (b) How do we know that cancer development requires more than one mutation? (c) How do we know that cancer cells contain defects in DNA repair?
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